The support is getting better by the minute! I do think steam os has helped catapult Linux ahead from where it was just 5 years ago in terms of hardware support

I have a bunch of different laptop models at work. For the most part, they do all Just Work with Ubuntu.

At one point the newest models would drop to a black screen after installation, but I guess that was fixed with some update because even those work now.

Yeah, my old machines (and work laptop!) are all nvidia, and it's nice how seamlessly it works.

With the main version of mint that's based on ubuntu, you get a driver manager so that you can choose between driver versions if needed.

With Linux Mint Debian Edition, it worked fine for general use out of the box with the open source driver. I went looking for info about the nvidia driver out of curiosity, and after stumbling upon some forum discussion I went ahead and tried "sudo apt install nvidia-driver" and it freaking worked!

• note I might be slightly off on that command, this is just from memory. And I probably enabled non-free software previously, because I know nvidia's reputation with linux enthusiasts.

edit to add: it did a LONG setup process to enable the nvidia driver too. I think it compiled some kernel modules and stuff too. But I like reading all that lovely monospaced terminal text scroll by with those details most users can ignore.